Making artificial nails on hands is a painstaking and creative work, here you need to have special knowledge, materials, tools and experience. This work is performed by professional specialists in beauty salons. They can also remove the extended nails if necessary. However, such a procedure does not require special materials and time-consuming, as well as experience and special knowledge, so it is quite possible to perform it yourself. Moreover, there are situations when there is simply no time to turn to a specialist for help.
First of all, in order to correctly do the whole procedure, you need to know exactly what material and technology what your extended nails are made of. This is either gel or acrylic. To remove acrylic nails, a special liquid is used - Acrylic Remover. When it’s not at hand, you can try nail polish remover, but if it doesn’t contain acetone (usually indicated on the label), you won’t succeed. It is best to purchase Acrilic Remover in a professional cosmetics store, even better if the manufacturer is the one who released the material for your extended nails. It is better not to experiment with the usual solvent from the hardware store, as as a result, you can not only spoil your nails, but also the skin on your fingers.
Removing extended nails is performed in the following sequence. First you need to remove the protruding edge of the nail, for this a cutter is best suited - a tool for shortening the tips. You can do this with scissors or nail clippers. Acrylic nails are too hard and very fragile, they crack when cutting, so take care of your eyes. Do not try to saw off the free edge with a nail file, even worse try to tear off the acrylic from the nail. All this can seriously damage your natural nail. The strength of the nail itself is much lower than the strength of its connection with acrylic. Your natural nail may peel or peel off completely.
After you have shortened your extended nails, you need to remove the finish gel with a rough file. This layer is applied to protect the material from scratches. It is sawed poorly, but without this procedure it is impossible, since it does not dissolve even with acetone. If this layer is left, then acrylic will not soften. After this, you need to moisten the cotton pads cut into 4 parts in the liquid and apply them to the nails. So that the liquid does not evaporate, each finger must be wrapped in a piece of food foil. To soften acrylic, it takes 35-40 minutes, it acquires a jelly-like consistency and is removed from the finger with a simple scraping, just do not use a sharp tool so as not to damage the natural nail. Remains of acrylic are removed with a cotton pad moistened in the same liquid. Then wash your hands and brush with cream, after which the whole procedure is completed.
If your extension nails are gel, the procedure will be much more complicated. Gel nails do not dissolve and do not soften, they must be filed off. The master can do this work with a special machine in about 1-3 minutes on one finger, and then finalizes with a file. If the master only works with files without a machine, then it takes up to 10 minutes to process one finger. He can do this job faster, but you need to wait for the nail to cool, as it heats up during processing. It will take you much more time to do this job, since the master has two free hands, he doesn’t work on his nails, he has extensive experience and knows how to remove extended nails. A few tips: before removing the gel nails, shorten them first, in which case they will have to be cut much less. First, use a rough file, and then a shallow “finish” file. If the material begins to peel off the nail, just peel it off. You can leave a thin layer of gel on top, it will strengthen your natural nail. If you are doing this work yourself for the first time, be prepared for the fact that it can take you all day to process ten fingers.